The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

Scotland; esp. the Highlands of Scotland.

Same as Alcaid.

Same as Alkahest.

Pertaining to Alc/us, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. A kind of verse, so called from Alc/us. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc.

The jurisdiction or office of an alcalde; also, the building or chamber in which he conducts the business of his office.

See Alkalimeter.

An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

Same as Alcaid.

A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.

A fortress; also, a royal palace.

A genus of perching birds, including the European kingfisher (Alcedo ispida). See Halcyon.

a genus of elk or moose.

Of or relating to alchemy.

In the manner of alchemy.

One who practices alchemy.

Relating to or practicing alchemy.

Alchemy.

To change by alchemy; to transmute.

An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy.

A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

Shortened forms of Alcoholate.

An impalpable powder.

A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization.

An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants.

A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.

Chronic excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages that leads to social, occupational, psychological and physiological problems.

The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder.

To reduce to a fine powder.

An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale.

Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry.

The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.

Same as Alcoholometer, Alcoholometric.

See Alcoholometry.

The Muslim Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form).

Of or pertaining to the Koran.

One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions.

A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.

See Halcyon.

A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria.

One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea.

The kingfishers.

Of or pertaining to the Alcyonaria.

A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges.

Like or pertaining to the Alcyonaria. A zo/phyte of the order Alcyonaria.

Continually.

A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades.

A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.

Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid.

A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees.

Most beloved.

A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.

The office of an alderman.

Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman.

Aldermen collectively; the body of aldermen.

Like or suited to an alderman.

Pertaining to, or like, an alderman.

The condition, position, or office of an alderman.

Made of alder.

One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.

An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.

A colorless liquid, C4H8O2, obtained by condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde: CH3CHO + CH3CHO = H3CH(OH)CH2CO; also, any of various derivatives of this. The same reaction has been applied, under the name of aldol condensation, to the production of many compounds.

An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.

A pot companion.

In a leaking condition.

Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract.

A bench in or before an alehouse.

A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread.

Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm.

Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.]

The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale.

A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.

Cockfighting.

See Alectryomancy.

Cockfighting.

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten.

a genus of brush turkeys.

On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side.

Sour ale; vinegar made of ale.

Gay; cheerful; sprightly.

To allay or alleviate; to lighten.

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).

A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house.

The imperial standard of the Turkish Empire.

The language of the Alemanni.

An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still.

The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant.

At full length; lengthwise.

Not having scales. A fish without scales.

A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse.

A city in Syria.

An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.

a state of readiness to respond.

In an alert manner; nimbly.

The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a /bush./

See Aleconner.

The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence.

An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.

Divination by means of flour.

An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour.

Flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons.

An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains (/protein granules/) in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.

Having the nature of aleurone.

a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands. Same as Aleutian, n.

a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands.

an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska.

Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

Young fish; fry.

Halloo.

A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.

a European herb (Smyrnium olusatrum) somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb.

same as Alexander[wn1]; Smyrnium olusatrum.

a city on the Mediterranean Sea, the chief port of Egypt.

Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.

A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.

Inability to read aloud, due to brain disease; the meanings of the words is nevertheless understood. Called also motor alexia. Inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols. Called also Word blindness and text blindness.